Queen Edith Primary School

Foundation school·Primary school Cambridgeshire·CB1 8QP
Composite score
47.6
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#8,160
National rank
#871
In East of England
#90
In Cambridgeshire
Top 55%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
9%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
48 first choices, 52 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
104
any preference, for 52 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.11
00.511.5
1 per place
0.7320220.9220230.9420240.8120250.922026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Queen Edith Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
403
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
45.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
14.4%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,409
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Queen Edith Primary School at a glance

Located in Cambridgeshire, Queen Edith Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a foundation school. The school educates roughly 403 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 57% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 8.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 9% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Queen Edith Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 52 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.6%. There are about 21.8 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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